서사 장르의 소설화: 『모비딕』의 경우
Novelization of the Epic Genre: The Case of Moby-Dick
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Genres are to inescapably change when new and additional thematic topics are introduced into their repertoires. Herman Melville was in a great need of a peculiar American epic genre which could embrace plural, democratic, and non-Western interests of people in commonality. Melville recognized that generic features of epic were unfit to achieve the ultimate pluralism of the stylistically diversified novelistic subject, due to lack of variety in the voices of the epic narrator which turned out to have caused banality of epic genre. Out of the need to adjust literary devices and formulaic epithets of epic into a modern novel genre, Melville had created Moby-Dick in his most inclusive literary form of novelized epic replacing epic universalism with novelistic pluralism and stylistic diversity. His novelized heroes, however, attempted neither to escape nor to deny the thematic universality of the conventional epic heroes. They extended and transformed their interests by embracing diverse cultural, racial and religious facets of comprehensively intricate world. They ultimately analysed and represented the plural whole, rather than to conform to a universally preconceived ideology. Melville focused on epic’s generic feature as spurred by cultural contact but he removed the temporal and spacial hierarchical distance among different foreign cultural entities. Consequently, wide-ranging equal input of diverse cultural environments were staged instead. Melville’s novelized rhetoric was not limited to the coherent epic narrator and naturally erased universal Western stereotyping against non-Western oriental world and succeeded in portraying a more pluralized Western world by familiarizing the different East with the West through diverse narration.
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Genres are to inescapably change when new and additional thematic topics are introduced into their repertoires. Herman Melville was in a great need of a peculiar American epic genre which could embrace plural, democratic, and non-Western interests of people in commonality. Melville recognized that generic features of epic were unfit to achieve the ultimate pluralism of the stylistically diversified novelistic subject, due to lack of variety in the voices of the epic narrator which turned out to have caused banality of epic genre. Out of the need to adjust literary devices and formulaic epithets of epic into a modern novel genre, Melville had created Moby-Dick in his most inclusive literary form of novelized epic replacing epic universalism with novelistic pluralism and stylistic diversity. His novelized heroes, however, attempted neither to escape nor to deny the thematic universality of the conventional epic heroes. They extended and transformed their interests by embracing diverse cultural, racial and religious facets of comprehensively intricate world. They ultimately analysed and represented the plural whole, rather than to conform to a universally preconceived ideology. Melville focused on epic’s generic feature as spurred by cultural contact but he removed the temporal and spacial hierarchical distance among different foreign cultural entities. Consequently, wide-ranging equal input of diverse cultural environments were staged instead. Melville’s novelized rhetoric was not limited to the coherent epic narrator and naturally erased universal Western stereotyping against non-Western oriental world and succeeded in portraying a more pluralized Western world by familiarizing the different East with the West through diverse narration.
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